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The Messiah Is Born

The Lord's Day Morning January 25, 2009 Luke 2:1-7 “The Messiah Is Born” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke 2. We’ll be looking at verses 1-7 as we continue our way through Luke's great Gospel. He's speaking to his friend — perhaps someone that he is introducing the gospel to, perhaps a young Christian, we don't know exactly — but he's Theophilus, as you will remember from the first four verses of the book. And in effect, especially in these first two chapters, he's saying, ‘What a time we live in, Theophilus. In our own time, ancient prophecies are being fulfilled. They've come to pass, and now even the greatest empire on earth has become subservient to the ends of God.’ And two things…

Power in the Blood

Wednesday Evening May 25, 2005 Leviticus 17:1-16 “Power in the Blood” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Leviticus, chapter 17. This is a strange chapter. It's a chapter that talks a lot about animal blood, and how the Old Testament people of God were to think of and treat animal blood. You may wonder why the Lord would devote a chapter in an important book about the public worship of God and the private morality of the people of God to the subject of blood. Well, you already know that from the beginning pages of Scripture, when Cain slew his brother Abel, that Moses recorded that when Cain did this atrocious thing–what happened? That Abel's “righteous blood cried out from the ground.” You remember the strictures that…

Set Apart for Service: Moses Ordains the Priests

Wednesday Evening January 19, 2005 Leviticus 8:1-36 “Set Apart for Service: Moses Ordains the Priests” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Leviticus, chapter eight. We’re going to read the whole of this chapter tonight, but because this chapter is not only lengthy but filled with very specific regulations for the consecration, for the anointment, for the ordination of the priests of Israel, what I think I’ll do is break the chapter up into eight parts as we read through it, and just say a brief explanation of what each part of the chapter is doing. Now, I've given you my outline. Let me hasten to say I think that Moses’ outline to this passage is only seven parts, so I want to immediately say Moses is right and I'm wrong,…

Blood on the Altar

The Lord's Day Evening January 2, 2005 Leviticus 7:1-10 “Blood on the Altar” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you’ll open your Bibles to Leviticus chapter one. If you’ll look at chapter one, for instance, we studied there the burnt offering, the offering that is called the holocaust, that is entirely consumed in the fire. And when we studied Leviticus 1, we saw that that offering taught us about the importance about right worship to God. God is clearly concerned how we worship Him, because…

Burnt Bread: The Grain Offering

The Lord's Day Evening November 21, 2004 Leviticus 6:19-23 “Burnt Bread: The Grain Offering” (2) Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Leviticus, chapter six, again; this time beginning in verse 19. You’ll want to allow your eyes to look back four verses over the passage that we considered last week when we first began to look again at the grain offering. And perhaps you’ll want to remember something of what we said when we looked at…

The Tent of Meeting Set Up

First Presbyterian Church Wednesday Evening Worship May 14, 2003 Exodus 40:1-33 “The Tent of Meeting Set Up” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus 40. We have come to the second to the last study in this great book that we've been looking at for a long time now–93 sermons ago we started the Book of Exodus, so persevere! You’re almost there! Now, let's look at Exodus 40 together. In Exodus 40:1-33, we are given a view of the…

The Face of Moses

The Face of MosesExodus 34:29-35 I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus 34. Tonight we come to the end of our study of the golden calf incident. These very last verses, these verses at the end of chapter 34, exalt the mediator Moses. Now this began in Exodus 32:1, “When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people assembled about Aaron and said to him, ‘Come, make us a God who will go before us.” They didn't think Moses was coming back so they…

A Mediator with a Heart

Exodus 33:12-23A Mediator with a Heart If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus 33, as we continue our study in the Old Testament. In the first eleven verses of this chapter, especially verse 3, the Lord says to Moses, “to go up to a land flowing with milk and honey, for I will not go up in your midst.” This summarizes the emphasis of Exodus 33:1-11, that God is assuring Moses and His people that He will refrain from immediately destroying them, that He will…

The Beauty of Holiness

The Lord's Day Morning October 27, 2002 Exodus 28:1-45 “The Beauty of Holiness” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III From Exodus 24 on, we've said several times the focus is on the details of the worship of God. Exodus 24 is the great turning point of the book. It's the “swing chapter” or dividing point of the Book of Exodus, and we commented even as we launched into Exodus 25, that it is striking that that passage begins a thirteen-chapter account of the tabernacle. Think of it: nearly a…

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